Aengus Bridgman

Désinformation russe | Un rapport met en lumière le rôle de Canadiens Des influenceurs de Tenet Media, qui seraient financés par la Russie, sèment la méfiance et la division au sein de la société canadienne, selon une enquête qui met en lumière des vulnérabilités dans l...

J'ai hâte de voir si Radio X ou Alexis Cosette-Trudel vont parler de ça...
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Thanks for sharing. A more recent study on this showed overall impact looking also at instagram data. Paints a pretty bleak picture: meo.ca/work/old-new...

But news is still being shared on the platform just with many work arounds.

This study gives a good idea of what happened to news consumption using social data from about 800 news outlets over a year. meo.ca/work/old-new...

Bih drop in social engagement, many news outlets went dark on the social web, local news hit hardest, and few Canadians know. A bleak portrait.

Inside the Russian Political Influence Campaign in Canada | The Tyee Parliamentary hearings, public documents and experts’ analyses reveal the role of Putin’s government.

Experts @abridgman.bsky.social and @marcuskolga.bsky.social drew my attention to the amount of anti-Canada rhetoric in the Tenet Media influencers videos/podcasts. That rhetoric (slamming liberal policies) is "aligned with Russian operatives interest."
thetyee.ca/News/2024/12...

Tik Tok et l’annulation des élections en Roumanie: «De nombreux comptes dormants ont soudainement commencé à parler du scrutin. Un contexte propice à l’influence étrangère» @abridgman.bsky.social dir. de l’Obs. de l’écosystème des médias de l’Université McGill. ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

The final update from a thorough investigation into the Russian funding of Tenet Media. The influencers were likely recruited for their extreme pro-Russian content following the invasion of Ukraine and their positionality in the right-wing ecosystem in the US/CA.

www.cdmrn.ca/publications...

@profmusgrave.bsky.social could you please add me to polisky?